Blaze in factory chimney

Belgian and Luxembourg firefighters joined forces to battle a fire a textile factory in Steinfort on Tuesday night.

13.02.2013

Belgian and Luxembourg firefighters joined forces to battle a fire a textile factory in Steinfort on Tuesday night.

According to firefighters, the blaze began in a chimney at the Textilcord factory in rue Schwarzenhof at around 10.15pm.

Firefighters from Arlon assisted colleagues from the Steinfort fire station in battling the blaze. No-one was injured in the blaze. Textilcord is a specialist in converting synthetic fibres and manufacturing fabrics and employs 140 people at the Steinfort site.

At the time of publishing it was not known if production was affected by the fire.